Menomena brings its cerebral art-rock to Lawrence tonight

Menomena has a sound all its own. One of the members, Brent Knopf, invented a complex digital looping program — he calls it the Deeler — that the Portland, Oregon, band uses during the recording process. Menomena is musically versatile and ambitious, too, able to chop up and loop together a kitchen-sink jumble of tech-savvy art rock — saxophones, xylophones, bells, a tinkling piano, whatever.